Re: [Axiom-mail] Aldor and Windows

[Stephen Watt]

Thank you for this enquiry Bill, and response Mike. 

I have just returned from a working visit with a colleague in
France where we were shaking down a Windows version of Aldor.

There are still one or two rough edges to sort out, such as getting
Aldor object files to work in the Visual C++ debugging environment
etc etc, but these are relatively minor.   We should be putting a Windows
version up on the ALdor.org site shortly.  On the Cygwin/MinGW front,
I believe we have also a version which we can tidy up and put on the
web site.  Your interest in these versions

It is very good to learn of your interest in these versions and your
willingness to participate in making them available in these settings.
Would you like to become involved in the correspondence on these?

Yours,

Stephen Watt

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:49:41PM +0000, Mike Dewar wrote:
> We used to distribute both Axiom and Aldor on Windows - Axiom was
> compiled with VC++ and Aldor (I think) worked with gcc as a back end.
> To get a command-line version of Axiom going on Windows should be
> straightforward if you have VC++ (and probably not too hard with gcc),
> and shouldn't require cygwin.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a Windows version available from
> aldor.org but there should be no major technical obstacles to producing
> one. 
> 
> Cheers, Mike.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:37:35PM -0500, Bill Page wrote:
> > Dr. Watt,
> > 
> > I am working with Tim Daly on the new open source version
> > of Axiom, specifically I have offered to produce a version
> > of Axiom that will run under Windows. To that end, I have
> > been investigating both Cygwin and MinGW/Msys as potential
> > platforms on which to build the windows version. There
> > are pros and cons for both: a version of GCL (one of the
> > Lisp platforms for Axiom) already exists that compiles
> > under Msys, but Msys lacks the ability to run x-windows
> > required to run the current version of TeXmacs which is
> > one possible GUI for Axiom.
> > 
> > In any case, because of the relationship between Axiom
> > and Aldor, I am also very interested in a version of Aldor
> > that would run under Windows. Has any work been done on
> > such a version of Aldor? If so, is there any way that I
> > might help to make this generally available? Testing? Etc.
> > If not, I would be quite interested in initiating such a
> > project. The goal, of course would be to make Aldor
> > available both as a stand alone compiler under Windows
> > and also as the library compiler for the Windows version
> > of Axiom.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Bill Page.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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